Amal Neerad's 'Arivaal Chuttika Nakshatram' to start soon NR [ Sat, Aug 20, 2011 ]

• The shoot of Amal Neerad's new film 'Arivaal Chuttika Nakshatram is expected to start by November.
  
  The title of the film has given rise to much speculation that the film is a political thriller. However, insiders claim that the film does not deal with politics at all.
  
  The film that is being scripted by Shankar Ramakrishnan is more of a period drama that is set in the period post-independence but before the birth of Kerala state.
  
  The politics that prevailed the scene then would become part of the film as well. Nothing more, nothing less.
  
  The film has Mammootty and Prithviraj in the lead roles, and would be produced by August Cinema.

Deepan and Mammootty to come together for 'Newsmaker'

Mammootty would be doing a film titled 'Newsmaker', to be directed by Deepan. Deepan had delivered one of the biggest hits of last year 'Puthiya Mukham'.

'Newsmaker' would be produced by George, Mammootty's personal assistant. The film would be produced under the banner of Cincil Celluloid.

Deepan would also be directing Prithviraj in the film 'Hero'. 'Newsmaker' would commence only after 'Hero's is complete, and would be Mammootty's Onam release in 2012.

Amal opts for "Arrivaal, Chuttika Nakshatram"

First it was the triumphant 'Big B', and then 'Saagar Alias Jacky' and 'Anwar'....Director Amal Neerad, who has already built a young fans group for himself, with his differently styled movies, has been in the lookout for a different but effective name for his new movie. Now the director seems to have finalised his title of the fourth movie, featuring Megastar Mammootty and Prithviraj as 'Arrivaal, Chuttika Nakshtram'.('Hammer, Sickle and star', the election symbol of   CPI(M), the biggest political party of the state)

While hearing this title, many of the fellow students of Maharajahs college will remember the political leniency of the director Amal and writer Shankar Ramakrishnan in their college days. But don't expect the new movie to a political flick. Infact 'Arrivaal, Chuttika Nakshatram' will be a thriller with subtle political back grounding of the forties and fifties, when the country was passing through the independence days. Naturally the movie will have references about the party spirits and revolts that marked the season.

'Arrivaal, chuttika nakshatram' will also feature another big artist from the south as the heroine. The writer of the movie Shankar Ramakrishnan, who devised a stunner with 'Urumi' is said to have almost completed the scripts. The makers of the movie are now fixing the final cast and crew of the movie, expected  to start its shoot by the end of November.